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[Chris Hastie <address@concealed>]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Adam Bernstein <address@concealed> wrote
> Has anyone successfully altered the new digest template (I'm
> using 4.0b2) to create a plaintext digest, with just the message
> body and not all the headers included?  Inserting [full_msg] gives
> all the headers, while [body] just gives an "ARRAY 0xXXXXXXX" output,
> because the Perl call that creates [body] returns a pointer, not a
> string.  But even after adding code to List.pm to create a single
> string from the body array, I still get the ARRAY junk, so I'm confused.

My guess (and it is a guess - I haven't studied the code at all) is that 
this would be a lot trickier than it sounds. If your list gets four 
messages using four different character sets, one using 
content-transfer-encoding of 7bit, one of 8bit, one of quoted-printable 
and one of base64, which character set and CTE would your plain text 
digest use? And what if some of the list messages include attachments or 
are of the dreaded multipart/alternative content-type?

I would love Sympa to offer subscribers the option of getting digests as 
multipart/digest or text/plain, and possibly even multipart/mixed 
(m/digest confuses a few clients, m/mixed is more universally 
understood), but creating text/plain digests is far from simple these 
days and I suspect it will require a lot more than tinkering with a 
template. All your message bodies will need to be converted to the same 
character set and CTE before they can be strung together. I suppose 
there is UTF-8 though...

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Chris Hastie